Massachusetts · Private foundation
Alice Shaver Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 109
- Grants FY2025
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 80
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Alice Shaver Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 93 | $1.0M | 40% |
| FY2024 | 80 | $874k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $765k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $795k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $728k | 2% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $773k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 68 | $797k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $720k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cool the Earth Inc | $220,000 | 9 | 51% |
| The House of Ruth Maryland Inc | $220,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Berkshire Food Project Inc | $190,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Manna Food Center Inc | $185,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The DC Central Kitchen Inc | $175,000 | 9 | 0% |
| A Wider Circle Inc | $170,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Provincetown Jazz Festival Inc | $165,000 | 9 | 48% |
| Stepping Stones Shelter Inc | $165,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Canal Alliance | $165,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Heads Up Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 8 | n/a |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Alice Shaver Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Milton & Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Marin Community Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Alice Shaver Foundation
- How much does Alice Shaver Foundation give?
- Alice Shaver Foundation reported 109 grants totaling $1,040,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 80 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Alice Shaver Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (13%), Arts & Culture (13%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Alice Shaver Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cool the Earth Inc ($220k), The House of Ruth Maryland Inc ($220k), Berkshire Food Project Inc ($190k).
- Does Alice Shaver Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alice Shaver Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alice Shaver Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, McNabb Foundation.
- Where is Alice Shaver Foundation based?
- Alice Shaver Foundation is based in MA.
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